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...having tons of fun trying to figure out how to make the noise,” he recalls. “The most creative suggestion involved a cleaver, a cutting board, and heads of cabbage. In the end we finally settled with scraping a music stand against an iron pole.” Green refuses to class one musical genre as superior to another, and rejects the attempts of those who do. Instead, Green prefers to focus on the essential similarity between opera and musical theater. He emphasizes that an open mind is all that is needed to appreciate opera...
...freestyle moguls competition, thereby refuting, for the moment anyway, Rudge's remark that Canadians tend to gag "on the big day." Under bright lights accented by the moonlit sky at Sauze d'Oulx, top-ranked Heil performed a 360 off the first jump and her trademark backflip with iron cross (skis crossed, tips down) off the second. "I've been feeling the pressure pretty much the last eight months," said Heil, 22. "The most important thing was to be in the moment and just let it all out." At the 2002 Games, Heil placed fourth, missing a bronze medal...
...arrive for their shift and immediately announce their intentions to beat us, daring prisoners to misbehave. Using a baton bat, they would strike suspected miscreants on the soles of their feet, behind their elbows and knees and then chain them—not sitting, not standing—against iron bars so that their battered limbs could not relax through the night. This is one form of violence...
...Israeli Labour party lost the general elections to the Likud for the first time in the history of the state of Israel. The disciples of David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of the Jewish State, lost to the descendants of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Zionist revisionist who articulated the Iron Wall theory and sought to include Transjordan in the borders of the future Israeli state. Believing that only force and unilateral action could defeat Arab nationalists, Jabotinsky wrote that “No agreement was possible with the Palestinian Arabs; they would accept Zionism only when they find themselves up against...
...record industry for classical music collapsed. The technology started changing. Some of these changes coincided with my own personal questions and my search to be a productive member of my community,” he says. The corresponding release party at a 250-seat folk musical hall, The Iron Horse, was met with such enthusiasm, Haimovitz says, that he embarked on a “Bach Listening-Room Tour.” He has played to audiences in intimate and often unlikely settings ranging from coffeehouses to the famous New York punk club, CBGB’s. He recalls...